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Austria accuses retired colonel of spying for Russia for decades

November 9, 2018 | Brainwave Science

SITUATION

Austria suspects that a recently retired military colonel spied for Moscow for several decades and provided several state secrets to Russian intelligence. This incident is a major setback in the relationship between Russia and a country seen as one of its closest allies in the European Union. Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, a representative of far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), has summoned the Russian charge d‘affaires over the matter and cancelled an upcoming to Russia.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has swiftly rejected such speculation and blamed Austrian authorities to have discussed this delicate matter through an appropriate chain of command before disclosing it to the public.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz informed the reporters that the 70-year-old army official, now retired, is suspected to have begun working with Russian Intelligence in the 90s and continued until this year. This case adds as the latest in a string of cases where Moscow has been accused of espionage in EU states. Considering the upswing in recent espionage cases in the European Union, Kurz hardened his tone and said if Russia’s involvement is proven in either Austria or Netherland case then it would take stern action against Russia.

“Russian spying in Europe is unacceptable and to be condemned,” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz added

Austria’s Defense Minister Mario Kunasek said the government was warned several weeks ago by a friendly European intelligence agency about the suspected spy. Kunasek further revealed the suspect, whose electronic devices, including a laptop, was confiscated for examination, has told the investigator that Russians had been interested in weapon systems, in the migration situation in Austria and information about Austrian personalities.

According to press reports, the colonel was paid 300,000 euros for his services, however, this hasn’t been verified by any officials. This case indicates that even after the Cold War, spying has continued, regardless of how closely two countries work and showcase that Austrian authorities require to tighten their security networks.

Several countries including the United Kingdom and the United States have revealed that Russia acts as a global threat to the nation’s security by illegally obtaining confidential intelligence. From the period of the Cold War, Russia had a much longer list of espionage and intelligence-gathering cases around the globe. Irrespective of the Collateral damage or public embarrassment, Moscow is unlikely to be deterred from carrying out aggressive foreign spying operations.

External intelligence gathering is primarily the domain of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). There is always a debate on how firmly and how publicly to respond to Russian intelligence operations, but the best approach is to apply defensive, strengthen their security networks and aggressive, identify the local handlers of these spies and take countermeasures against Russia.

WHY ICOGNATIVE?

Russian President Putin said, “The spy games are not going anywhere. Nobody has shut it down before and nobody can shut it down now either.” The best battle strategy is to gain confidential information about the potential enemy before the table turns. Various Russian spies (including the accused Maria Butina in the US) have been unmasked in recent years, who have passed decades of sensitive information about the country to Kremlin, and many more will be. The existing conventional approaches cannot provide necessary intelligence about the spy-web created within a nation by the Russian Intelligence or enemy countries. Identifying and arresting a foot-solider isn’t a scratch unless information gained from the spy can be used to reverse-engineer and identify all the foreign spies in the nation. Only one technology exists that is the most suitable tool to answer the call for such a huge National Security challenge and further provide valuable information necessary to identify the existing spies in the region. iCognativedeveloped and designed by Brainwave Scienceis a one-of-a-kind advanced forensic technology that is phenomenally accurate, cost-effective, portable, non-invasive, easy to use and easy to master and provides guaranteed results with over 99% accuracy within an hour. This technology has an unparalleled ability to distinguish between spies and innocents by detecting concealed or hidden specific crime-related information in the brain.

iCognative can be a game-changing approach for National Security agencies, especially when illegal intelligence-gathering has become a constant threat. This technology recognizes the vital difference between the spy and an innocent through the recognition of a specific crime-related information stored in their brains. The confidential information uncovered during the investigation and previous espionage incidents would only be present in the spy’s brain. With the aid of iCognative’s Specific Screening technology, National SecurityAgencies can identify the spies in their region and obtain what specific confidential information was shared with Russian Intelligence. It is obvious that these espionage agents must have a handler within the country who give the specific order, resources and in return receives the desired secret information which is transferred through a secret method to Russian Intelligence. This advanced technology provides the key to break this chain of command, identify and locate the various espionage agents and strike in a more effective and peaceful way.

A 45-minute iCognative test conducted on retired colonel by assigned investigator would provide an impeccably accurate intelligence and lead to the investigative agencies that would eliminate the biggest challenge, compromised national security, within hours. The assigned investigator uploads all case-related information including details from previous espionage cases, information acquired from the seized laptop into the iCognative system protocol to conduct a test on the arrested retired colonel. Information such as the specific way to communicate to the handler or Russian Intelligence, what specific documents were shared with the handler, his bank accounts details to trace the finance, location and identification of handler, any other known espionage agents working in the region, etc., can also be added along with other information to the system. The iCognativesystem records and analyzes the brain responses of the colonel to determine with over 99% accuracy whether specific crime-related information under question is present in the suspect’s brain or not. Once the test is completed, Security agencies would have an edge with valuable intelligence to investigate this espionage case in the right direction and eliminate the chain of command before any major national secrets are compromised further.

iCognative byBrainwave Science can provide all the essential keys to identify these espionage agents, reveal what information they were looking for and what information was shared, providing security agencies enough time to rectify the shared information, therefore, maintaining the balance in a secretive battle. iCognative believes in a peaceful but a powerful way of winning these battles without any bloodshed countries that deploy this fool-proof technology are empowered to maintain balance, peace and protect their nations interests from enemies.